Laminate

The Carpet Mill specializes in a wide variety of laminate flooring to suit anyone’s taste and budget. We carry a lot of textures, colors, and makes for you to choose from as well as a few in – stock lines, which are readily available for pick up. Its ease of installation makes laminate the perfect do – it – yourself flooring solution and its unmatched durability makes it an excellent choice for rental or investment properties, businesses and high – traffic areas.

Laminate flooring is a multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together with a lamination process. Laminate flooring simulates wood or stone with a photographic appliqué layer under a clear protective layer. The inner core layer is usually composed of melamine resin and fiber board materials. It has the advantages of being attractive, while costing less than natural floor materials, and of being more durable than carpet.

Installation

Laminate floors are reasonably easy for a do-it-yourself homeowner to install. Laminate flooring is packaged as a number of tongue and groove planks that can be clicked into one another. Installed laminate floors typically “float” over the sub-floor on top of a foam/film underlayment, which provides moisture and sound-reducing properties. A small (1-10mm) gap is required between the flooring and any immovable object such as walls; this allows the flooring to expand without being obstructed. Baseboards (skirting boards) can be removed and then reinstalled before and after lying of the flooring is complete for a neater finish, or small beading trims can be fitted to the baseboards. Saw cuts on the planks are usually required at edges, and around closet and door entrances.